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Clock in, never leave<\/h2>

Over here in the United States, most of us have off from work on Independence Day. It’s a National Holiday, after all, where people gather to grill meat, drink beer, and remember Bill Pullman’s iconic speech about kicking alien ass<\/a>. It’s a lazy, relaxing day; a few hours where most people can escape the doldrums of a working life.<\/p>

It’s ironic then that I spent a notable percentage of my morning playing Pippin Barr’s It Is As If You Were Doing Work<\/em>. The browser-based<\/a> game is a low-fi send up to the often soul-crushing nature of inter-office memos and the tedious nature of endless typing.<\/p>

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You’ll spend most of your time in It Is As If You Were Doing Work<\/em> grinding out emails with specific character limits, adjusting calendars, and toiling away in hopes of earning a promotion. Every once in a while, all that hard work nets you a short break, where players can goof off on the outdated Windows desktop and play some Brickbreaker<\/em>. The work never ends though, because there’s always another assignment to be completed or a promotion just <\/em>out of 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